NPP Office 'Shit-Bombed'

THE BEKWAI police are investigating the 'shit-bombing' (spraying of human excreta) on the premises of the constituency Secretariat of the New Patriotic party and the residence of the former Organizer.

The party executives, were awakened to the dumping of human excreta at the offices and residence of Mr. Osei Kwadwo, alias Joe Santa in the early hours of December 11, 2006 by unknown people.

The perpetrators had committed the crime during a power outage on that fateful day.

As a result, tension, fear and anxiety have gripped the entire executives and people of Bekwai as nobody can tell who the next target to be shit bombed is.

The police have confirmed that the NPP executives have lodged a complaint with it and that investigations are underway. No arrest has been made at the time of filing this report.

The former scribe of the Bekwai NPP constituency, Nana Akwasi Agyeman who could point to a suspect, has condemned the sordid act.

He appealed to members of the party to exhibit sense of responsibility and solve their differences in a mature way and not resort to unconventional methods like the use of human excreta to prevent the use of the office.

"We are one people with the same destiny and beliefs" he noted and called for unity to support the great NPP in anticipation of the 2008 elections.

Akwasi Agyeman, however, pointed to some NPP faithfuls who had previously made an attempt to close down the party office pending the determination of a legal suit instituted by some members of the party against the executives.

On July 28 this year, a Kumasi Fast Track High Court, presided over by Mr. Justice K. Addu-Ampomah restrained nine persons said to be exercising the office of Executive Committee of the Bekwai constituency of the NPP until the final determination of a law suit between the two sides.

The Plaintiffs, Victor Duah (secretary) and Baffour Awuah, second vice chairman sought an order of perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants from holding themselves out as or performing any functions reserved for duly elected executives.

The Plaintiffs claimed the purported election of the Bekwai constituency of the NPP conducted by the then executive Committee on December 15, 2005 to elect a new executive was illegal and improperly conducted.

The first defendant, Atta Kwasi, then constituency chairman had failed to post the notice of election as required by the party's constitution depriving some interested members who qualified and desired to contest the elections could not apply to contest.

When the plaintiffs sought the intervention of the regional Executive Council (REC) if failed to intervene.

Upon the court's consideration to protect the legal rights of the plaintiffs, it upheld their application for an order of injunction, which has since been in force.